Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 15:29:34
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0202011526510.32117-100000@volumehost.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] install by jim@nuttz.org
1 I agree with the "read editor" bit, but I should also mention that you can
2 pass -w to nano (or pico) and it will NOT wrap lines. (Which I believe the
3 install guide mentioned)
4
5 So, for example:
6 # nano -w /etc/fstab
7
8 -Jared H.
9
10 On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 jim@×××××.org wrote:
11
12 > On 1 Feb, Network Administrator wrote:
13 > > install went well but I get a couple of errors
14 > >
15 > > When I boot I get a message:
16 > > Mounting local file systems
17 > > Mount: mount point 0 does not exist
18 > >
19 > > And when I shut down I get:
20 > > Swapoff: /dev/SWAP
21 > > no such file or directory
22 >
23 > Blame it on nano. It wraps lines (and it's not obvious it has done so).
24 > You need to go into fstab with a real editor (vi, emacs, etc) and fix
25 > them, the pass/dump values are wrapped to the next line.
26 >
27 > jim
28 >
29
30 --
31 Using the internet as it was originally intended...
32 for the further research of pornography and pipebombs.